The Portland daily press., 1887-08-10

BLANKET-OLOGY.

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STAPLES DRY GOODS STORE.
Persons looking into that
corner window to-day will dis
cover unmistakable signs of
Midsummer lunacy.
Cords, solid cords of warm,
woody, winter Blankets.
In plain sight of the swelter-
ing, sweaty, sticky sufferers,
who blister in the blazing
August sunshine.
Blankets in August
as out Of place as blue poker chips in the
Yes, Blankets in August,
and for sale too.
We bought last spring and
early this summer vast masses
of blankets. We bought them
of men desperate to get rid of
them at any price.
At time when prices had
as many ups and downs as a
hotel elevator boy.
$50 that now our store room looks as Il a
blanket dam mad burst somewhere on the
headwaters OF woody river, and flooded us with
Blankets.)
We bought them for next
winters trade, and don't care
a-last-year's -bird-nest whether
we sell a single pair before that
time.
But a whim or freak says
TRY EN- now; bait the people
with Blankets at 20 per cent.
discount, and see what they
will do about it,
So here they are, right in
your sight.
tAnd we wonder If you have our contempt
for the sayings OF that conceited old blunder-
mead, Ben Franklin, who said 'neyer buy
thing you don't want, because II is cheap.")
asst he himself didn't hang the dusty rafters
Of his mental garrett full of crochety rubbish,
cheap, mouldy and useless)
One pile of these Blankets,
white and colored, you will see
are marked rs cents pair.
And we'll just leave it with
you to say whether they are
cheap or not.
Next pile are Snowfall"
Blankets, SO called because
they grow in favor as fast as a
SNOWFALL grows by rolling on
the snow.
They are white, heavy, hon.
est and big. Yes, almost as big
as the lie the Boss-town Sun
day newspaper tells about its
circulation.
Price now $500 a pair.
Price next autumn $3.50 a
pair.
The next neighbor lot are
Gray Blankets, weighing 6 lbs.
to the para noble blanket.
Price now $500 a pair.
Price next Fall $3.50 a pair.
Gan opportunity as rare and as important to
catch on the fly as millionaire bride, by
Three-dollars-a-week dry goods clerk in the
remnant department.)
Then follows a two-case lot
of Winthrop White Blankets,
broad, long and thick.
Price this week 81. 50 a pair.
Next Fall our price will be
$500; no less.
GLOSSY and fluffy comes
next. A part case of Newport
Blankets left over from last
season. We opened them last
November at $500, later we
marked them down to $3.50.
You may have what there are
left of them for $500 a pair.
.CThey are big enough to cover the nine Judi
cial Jumbos Of the y. s. Supreme Court, With
out erowding or kicking)
Nextly, perts up case of
Colored Blankets, Gray, 8 lbs.
weight to the pair, 81 inches
wide, and long enough to blan-
ket a six-footer, toes and nose,
and bring a corner up around,
making a temporary night-cap
for his bald head.
This is a $500 Blanket.
You get them this week for
$500 a pair.
Lots of other lots, but news
paper space costs too much to
advertise them.
Such bargains in Blankets
we have never seen, although
the Blanket business is as
familiar to us as whisky to a
Kentucky Democrat.
we'd locate it nearer home if we dared)
We have punched together
this batch of Blanket bargains
for YOnr benefit, not for ours,
for we are not eager to sell
them before Fall.
dts mean, downright mean TO our fellow
tradesmen, for us to sell Blankets at these
prices, and before the other dealers can get at
you; meaner than TO rob child ofits chewing
gum and chew IL yourself. But then ID will give
tnem enough to chew on when they see the
Blanket bargains we are letting out this roast
ing dog-days weather. II not, they can chew
on their store-rent bills which they will find
about as nutritious dumb bell, and as long
as the winding up of a Waterbury watch)
BY the way, before we forget
1t, we have made a lot of Bed
Comfortables, made of fine
twilled Saline, unbleached,
stuffed with nice batting, and
tackled with red wool yarn.
Large size. The price next
Fall will be $I.75 each. We
shall let out a few of them this
week for $3.50.
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